reckoning
verb
- 1
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- 2
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- 3
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- 4
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
“I reckon he won't try that again.”
- 5
To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
- 6
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- 7
To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
noun
- 1
The action of calculating or estimating something.
“By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.”
- 2
An opinion or judgement.
- 3
A summing up or appraisal.
- 4
The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
- 5
The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
- 6
The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
- 7
Rank or status.
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